Justice requires analyzing how social structures constitute and conceal our identities

Evidence

If we really want to further the cause of justice, we need to understand how discursive and material structures – race, capitalism, nation-states, orientalism, family, and liberalism itself – shape our very emergence as differentiated ‘human’ by establishing and then occluding hierarchical relations among us. We need, in other words, a view of the human that focuses on the social and psychological processes of self-formation in a context that acknowledges, as Chow states, how we can be ‘at the mercy’ of broad ideological and social structures that in many ways ‘speak and act’ us. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 362

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social justice silos must yield to analysis of intertwining hierarchies’ shared logic. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 838; Recognition-based justice inherently demands structural and institutional critique, not merely internal self-realization — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 80; Justice theory must target institutionalized domination and oppression, not just distribution — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 111 (+1 more)